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Dining and Cooking · France’s push for strategic autonomy crumbles under Trump’s booze tariffs – POLITICOU.S. President Donald Trump upped the ante last week by threatening 200 percent tariffs on European alcohol. Such a move would disproportionally affect winemaking countries including France, which exported €15.4 billion worth of wine and spirits last year, according to the Federation of French Wine and Spirits Exporters (FEVS), most of which went to the United States. France is the EU’s top exporter of wine and spirits, and the sector is particular influential in French politics and society. With one of its most valuable exports now in the White House’s crosshairs, French leaders appear to be getting cold feet on
